Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.